INCREASING STUDENTS’ WRITING ABILITY BY APLLYING COLLABORATIVE WRITING TECHNIQUE TO ELEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMA N 1 NGADIROJO IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2014/2015

Abstract

This research intended to know whether Collaborative Writing Technique can increase student’s writing ability to the eleventh grade students of SMA N 1 Ngadirojo in the academic years 2014/2015 and to know student’s writing skill of grammatical, stylistic, mechanical, judgment and organizing idea taught with Collaborative Writing Technique. The research design of this research is the quantitative research by using experimental method. The eleventh grade students of SMAN 1 Ngadirojo were taken as the population of this research. The number of the population was 225 students classified into eight classes. Cluster random sampling was taken as the way for taking the sample. The total sample was 56 students, 28 from class XI IPA 4 were taken as the experiment class and 28 students from XI IPS 1 were taken as the control class. The data were collected by giving test to students and interview with English teacher. Interview were given information about main problems of students in writing ability. Writing tests were given to students to get the main data. An analytic scale was used in analyzing the data focusing on the grammatical, stylistic, mechanical, judgment and organizing idea of the writing. Then, the researcher counted the data by using statistical formula called descriptive analysis. The calculation was done in order to get significant difference in teaching writing by using Collaborative Writing Technique and Lecturing Technique. After the data had been collected by using test, it was found that the pre-test average of the experimental class was 55,32 and control class was 52,71. While, the post-test average of the experimental class was 81,82 and control class was 67,57. The score of students’ writing skill in grammatical was increased 86%, stylistic skill was increased 52 %, mechanical skill was increased 15 %, judgment skill was increased 29% and organizing idea was increased 54% dispute of scoring in pre-test and post-test. It was conclude that Collaborative Writing Technique can increase student’s writing ability on the eleventh grade of SMAN 1 Ngadirojo in the academic years 2014/2015. Finally, the researcher suggests to teacher that they could use Collaborative Writing Technique in teaching writing.

Keywords : Collaborative Writing Technique, Student’s Writing Ability, Eleventh  Grade, SMAN 1 Ngadirojo, 2014/2015